WebMD
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Health Tech, Patient Engagement
WebMD Bolsters Patient Engagement Offerings Through New Acquisition
WebMD acquired the operating assets of Healthwise, a nonprofit provider of health education content and patient engagement tools. The deal follows another acquisition WebMD made in the patient engagement space in 2020. According to Ann Bilyew, WebMD’s senior vice president of health, the company is now “the indisputable market leader in providing patient education to both providers and payers.”
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WebMD, Artera Team Up to Improve Patient Education and Engagement Through Texting
WebMD Provider Services struck a partnership with patient communication company Artera (formerly WELL Health) to expand access to patient educational content and medication affordability programs through texting.
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Sharecare strikes new partnership with large Arizona insurer
Digital health startup Sharecare launched an exclusive partnership with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona. Founded by former WebMD CEO Jeff Arnold and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the app offers activity tracking and coaching for users.
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Mayo Clinic delivers first aid advice through Amazon Alexa
As part of the Mayo Clinic First Aid program, users of Alexa-enabled devices can ask for first aid information, such as advice on how to treat a cut.
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KKR’s $2.8B WebMD acquisition and how searching for health information has evolved
WebMD’s acquisition calls to mind just how much the business of online searches for health information has evolved.
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WebMD will compete with physician social networks with new Medscape virtual consult app
The crowdsourcing consult app will be available to doctors in 245 countries.
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What are the sources behind Google’s health information effort?
Google shared a few more details on its efforts to bring more accurate, reliable medical […]
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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After Avado deal, WebMD eyeing partnerships with mobile app developers, health IT, biometrics
So you may have heard that WebMD acquired health IT startup Avado — a company […]
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Health IT, Patient Engagement, Startups
WebMD’s Avado acquisition bridges its engagement gap between docs and patients
Patient engagement tools have just taken on a new importance for health IT investors, thanks to […]
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Mayo Clinic v. WebMD: Have standards suddenly changed?
New York Times columnist Virginia Heffernan suggests a new standard for online health information: that advice directly from reputable health systems beats third-party reporting coupled with a review, particularly when there is a greater financial motive behind the latter approach. Such a change would mean that health systems, which lost some of its influence for health information before the Internet revolution, would suddenly regain mindshare they lost to the Web and the WebMD’s of the world.
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WebMD… the next takeover target? (Morning Read)
WedbMD’s consumer portal ranks as the top health site on the Web, and the company’s financials are very healthy. It could be an attractive target for any offline media company that wanted to make a splash in an online category that performed well even during the midst of the recession, suggests paidContent.org.
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Cleveland Clinic launches mobile website for smartphones
The Cleveland Clinic has launched a mobile version of its website that will allow smartphone […]